Mirror - Vol. 12, No. 15 - January 28, 1988

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Volume 12, No. la Our Second Decade Thursday, January 28,1988 The Image of Fairfield
Orientation
Process
By Christine Henchar
Staff Writer
Next September, 250 mem-bers
of the Class of 1990 can look
forward to welcoming freshmen to
Fairfield. Traditionally, Fresh-man
Orientation has been the re-sponsibility
of the Junior Class,
and Jeanne DiMuzio, Director of
Freshmen Orientation, hopes that
the Class of 1990 will enthusiasti-cally
fill all 250 positions. Al-though
this tradition will remain
thesame, anumberofchanges will
be implemented to help the week-end
run more smoothly. In addi-tion,
the administration intends to
emphasize academic life at Fair-field
more than in previous years.
One of the major differences
in next year's program is the addi-tion
of Day-Chairs, who will assist
the Co-Chairs. Two Day-Chairs
will oversee the activities of the
day they are assigned. Jeanne Di-
Muzio designed this structure to
take some of the pressure off of the
Co-Chairs who are very busy over-seeing
the entire weekend. Di-
Muzio said that this system would
also "allow more students to have
enhanced leadership experience."
Students interested in applying for
Day-Chair positions should attend
an informational meeting on Feb-ruary
3,in the Nursing Auditorium
at 5:00pm.
In an attempt to orient fresh-men
more effectively to academ-ics,
forty-five faculty members
will be asked to participate in the
weekend's activities. In the past,
freshmen were divided into groups
and were introduced to the social
and academic facets of Fairfield
life by two student OA's. Next
year, each group will be led by one
faculty member and one student.
Interested students should attend a
meeting on March 1 in the Nursing
Auditorium.
As always, a number of jun-iors
will be needed to fill the very
important roles of Committee
Workers. These students are the
hard-working individuals who
move all of the freshmen into the
dorms, help prepare the campus
before the new students arrive, and
assist in running activities, such as
dances. According to Jeanne
DiMuzio, these students have been
the backbone of previous orienta-tions.
Members of the Class of
1990 who wish to apply for these
positions should attend an infor-mational
session on April 5 in the
Oak Room, at 5:00pm.
Nineteen qualified candidates
have already applied for the Co-
Chair positions, and Jeanne Di-
Muzio will announce her choices
on Monaday, February 1. Di-
Muzio noted that only students
with solid academic records are
encouraged to apply for the vari-ous
leadership positions because
their responsibilities are time con-suming.
Students applying must
also be able to demonstrate effec-tive
time management skills.
FUSA Presidential Hopefuls Emerge
Carroll and Dietz to debate tonight
By Lynn Ann Casey
Assistant News Editor
Posters, banners, and fliers
have overtaken the Campus Cen-ter
as once again it is time for the
FUSA presidential elections to be
held. This year, they will take place
on Tuesday, February 2. All un-dergraduates
are
eligible to vote
in the Campus
Center from
10:00am to
7:00pm. The
two candidates
running are
Mark Dietz and
Frank Carroll.
Mark Dietz
is a politics ma-jor
with a sociology minor, and is
currently FUSA's Director of
Academics. Frank Carroll is a
history major with a Spanish mi-nor,
and is currently the Executive
Director of FUSA. Both candi-dates
have been busy campaigning
since their return from Christmas
break. Both anxiously await the
results of the election.
When Markjoined FUSA one
year ago, he had no intention of
running for president. Now, be-cause
he has has enjoyed it so
much and has gained a lot of expe-rience,
he feels he can take on the
responsibility of being president
of FUSA. With the help of his
campaign manager, Mike
Boynton, Mark has portrayed
himself as "FUSA's Future." He
wants to be president because he
"loves working with people". He
feels that he can do a good job
because he has "a strong grasp of
what goes on in the student gov-ernment."
Frank Carroll has been active
in FUSA for two and a half years.
Mark Dietz and Frank Carroll P: Whitehouse
He has worked in all three
branches of FUSA and has been
very much in touch with students,
as he is an RA in Claver. Frank
said he would not have been in the
position to run for FUSA president
if it had not been for his "great
influences and supporters" espe-cially
including his campaign
manager, John Kane, and all others
who have worked hard on his
campaign. His slogan, as well as
his main goal, is to "Get Results".
Frank wants to be president be-cause
he "believes in FUSA" and
he has "so much I want to do".
The goals ofeach of thecandi-dates
make the distinction and
should be considered carefully by
voters. Mark wants, "improved
student communication, more and
better events, and, overall, strong
student government." Specifi-cally,
he wants to improve the
Adopt-A-Frosh and Class Council
programs. Frank's major objec-tives
are "school unity:" and
"communication between FUSA
and the student body". He also
wants to establish an Inter-Resi-dence
Council, a mini-course pro-gram,
and a pro-posal
to install
phones into all
dorm rooms to
save students
money.
Both candi-dates
have a sin-cere
and dedicated
interest in the stu-dents
of Fairfield
and want the op-portunity
to give back to Fairfield
some of what it has given to them.
They want to get students more in-volved
in FUSA. As Mark says,
"The S in FUSA stands for the
students, and they are the most
important part ofthe government".
Frank feels that, "communication
between FUSA and the student
body is essential to make the gov-ernment
work".
Regardless of what the election
results may be, both candidates
said that they will remain an inte-gral
part of the Student Associa-tion
here at Fairfield. Mark and
Frank are sincerely interested in
simply serving the student body.
The Mirror is sponsoring a de-bate
between the candidates to-night
at 7:00pm in Gonzaga Audi-torium.
All are welcome to attend.
Hooks receives Bellarmine Medal
By Kris Kovacik,
Staff Writer
The Bellarmine Medal of
Honor, Fairfield University's
most prestigious recognition of an
educator for his contributions to
world peace was awarded to Dr.
Benjamin L. Hooks. Fr. Aloysius
Kelly S.J., University President,
awarded Hooks with the Bel-larmine
Medal on January 21 be-fore
an audience in the Campus
Center Oak Room.
Hooks fits the description of a
recipient of the Bellarmine Medal
through his leadership in the
NAACP, and his work as a lawyer,
judge, minister, banking industry
executive, and the first black
member of the Federal Communi-cations
Commission. In his vari-ous
positions, Hooks has chal-lenged
and inspired others to fight
for minority equality.
Hooks began his acceptance
speech by describing a stormy
night in Memphis where Martin
Luther King Jr. had spoken pas-sionately
about his life and his
dream for equality. King reminded
his audience that there were "dark
and difficult days ahead" and
within 24 hours Martin Luther
King was killed.
His murder forcefully drove
home the fact that the fight was far
from over, the battle had not been
won, and "dark and difficult days"
for the blacks were ahead. Mr.
Hooks sited examples of dark days
in his own life. He remembers
working as a lawyer in Memphis,
Term., where he was called "boy"
and demoted exclusively because
of his color. He also pointed out
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recent occurences such as: apart-heid
in South Africa, four young
blacks shot in Queens and the
marching of the Klu Klux Klan in
both New York and Connecticut.
Even more disturbing to him than
the KKK are the people sporting
their three piece Brooks Brothers
suits who, because of ignorance,
hatred, and/or intolerance, hold
the same views as the KKK.
"In spite of the darkness" Mr.
Hooks acknowledges, "many
good things have happened, we
have come a long way." He con-tributes
this to hard work, determi-nation
and hope in a better future.
"Never was there a day so dark we
didn't think there was a brighter
day ahead." Today over 200 mil-lion
dollars of the Gross National
Product is controlled by black
power and the NAACPhas revital-ized
its membership with over
50,000 young members. "These
figures would have been unheard
of only a few years ago," he con-tended.
Hooks called the audience to
actively participate in the present
and to remember the past. "Those
who forget the lessons of history
are doomed to repeat the mis-takes,"
warns Hooks. He asked the
audience to register and vote and
called the black women to remem-ber
their identity, not letting the
family or the neighborhoods disin-tegrate.
Continued on page 2.
Spring Break?
page 5
The AIDS Virus
page 7
1987'sTop10s
page 8
Stag Tracks re-turnes
page 11
Annual
Townhouse
Lottery held
By Claudine Killer
Staff Writer
On Wednesday, January 20,
the annual Townhouse Lottery
was held in the Oak Room, and
hundreds of eager Juniors and
Seniors attended to see if they
would be able to obtain a spot for
the 1988-89 school year. The lot-tery
was run by Richard Rossi,
Director of Student Housing, and
Teresa Scott, Assistant Director of
the Townhouses.
Two hundred students sub-mitted
applications in hopes of se-curing
one of the 102 units avail-able.
74 of the units are four-bed
houses, and the remaining 28 are
new six-bed houses. According to
Teresa Scott, "We try to make the
Senior/Junior breakdown as close
as possible to 70% Senior units and
30% Junior units." In accordance
with these percentages, 69 units
were drawn by Seniors, and 32 by
Juniors. The breakdown of fe-males
to males was roughly 270
females to 204 males.
A major concern of students is
the scheduled date for the
townhouse lottery. The primary
reason for this is that students who
are not selected for a townhouse
can use the beach as an alterna-tive.
Teresa Scott felt," With an
early lottery, students could com-pete
for more desireable housing."
Student Legislature President, Le-onard
DelGallo is working on tak-ing
a student survey to find out the
preference of students.
There is still a chance for the
groups that were not chosen in
Wednesday's lottery. A waiting
list including \he remaining 14
Senior townhouses and 85 Junior
townhouses has been compiled.
There are no guarentees for wait-listed
groups, but Teresa Scott
speculated that "looking at past
history, almost all wait-listed Sen-iors
may be accommodated. They
may not be notified of a unit's
availablity until May, however."
The probability of many wait-listed
Juniors securing a unit is not
as high.
"The townhouse lottery sys-tem
is not a perfect one," accord-ing
to Teresa Scott, "but many
people have spent long hours
trying to improve it for the benefit
and fairness to all students in-volved."